Purple Modal Strobe Ecstasy with the Daughters of Destruction

[Michael Peters <mpeters@csi.com>]

I'm just listening to a new CD of classical Terry Riley loop music: a 40 
minutes selection from a 1968 All Night Flight concert called "Purple 
Modal 
Strobe Ecstasy with the Daughters of Destruction". Riley (calling himself 
"Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band") plays soprano saxophone, organ, and 
"time-lag accumulator", his own pre-Frippertronics loop system. Wonderful 
oldfashioned loops for the lover of early minimal music!

This recording is the first of a CD release series of old Riley recordings 
which have never been available. Check the Cortical Foundation 
http://www.cortical.org/spores/Corti4.html for details.

The website says,

>Poppy Nogood for soprano saxophone and time-lag accumulator. Loudspeakers 
placed around the
>audience. An all-overness. Music in a field. Modal lines inspired in part 
>by 
Coltrane's "My
>Favorite Things". Building on the echo. Riley: "The music has to flow in 
>our 
bloodstream and we
>have to be carried by its bloodstream".


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